The highly praised sketchwriter for The Times has collected her funny, acerbic and enlightening sketches from the last year in this one volume.

As Matthew Parris puts it,

Ann Treneman is brilliant. How does she do it? In a word, it’s her deadpan. Not a sentence, not a phrase is permitted the tiniest giggle. The author herself remains frozen-faced. The reader is in stitches.

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